 I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.  The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 255by John Dryden - 1854 - 299 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, о» I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...with, as a crime : with of. I have pleaded guilty to all thout^its and cxpressi<"'!!S of mine, whiclt can be- truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. Dryden's FaUet. Th» 4ccidents arc not the same \vhich v:onld have irjucJ him cy'a servile copying,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...thoughts or expreffions of mine that can be truly " acculed of obfcenity, immorality, or profanenefs, " and retract: them. If he be my enemy, let him " triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of ** my repentance." Yet as our beft difpofitions are imperfecT:, he left ftanding... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...instead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my fnend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...Fables, he makes the amende honorable. " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to he otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pages
...defence of what was really indefensible. " I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 pages
...said the wag ; " and you know two of a trade can never agree,"— Gibber1! Apology. many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneneis, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 568 pages
...the preface to his fables, he says : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly, and I have pleaded guilty to...thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy let him triumph... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...gentleman and a Christian, he replied : " I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he taxed me justly, and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which may truly be argued of obscenity, profaneness or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...instead of it, to traduce me in a libel. I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to...be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, aslhav»: given him no person«! occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
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